Pac Man Loves…Multiplication.com

I get asked a lot about Pac Man, since I don’t write about him as much as the younger set. I don’t anticipate that changing, but would like to do better.

There is a reason I write about the younger crew more…I am more comfortable with that age range! I am educated in early childhood development! I always joked when I was in college, I never wanted to teach higher than Kindergarten because they would probably be smarter than I was!!! But here I am about to teach 3rd grade and we are doing just fine. But, I am no expert with the upper grades, by any stretch! I am learning as I go and enjoying our journey together! So, I will try to better with sharing about Pac Man and a few of his “loves” similar to his Stacking Cup post I did a few weeks ago.

We recently found a website {free} that is AMAZING, and one I so wish someone would have told me about years ago. It is called www.MULTIPLICATION.com but don’t let the name fool you, it is not just multiplication.

I Googled “memorizing multiplication facts” and this site came up. I jumped over and began looking around and fell in LOVE! In a nutshell here’s why…

Self Correcting, Timed, fact family quizzes…for all 4 operations!!!!!!!! Multiplication shows up by default but if you want addition, subtraction, or division, the links are right there above the quizzes! You can have your child do these online {what we are doing}, or even print them yourself…whatever works for you. The possibilities are endless for using this site to help with fact memorization.

GAMES! Pac Man really enjoys these simple games, which are really helping with his multiplication skills.

They have TONS more, you’ll have to just look around. They have a whole system and books to go along with it also {although we aren’t using that portion}. I am personally the most thankful for the quizzes and simple games. I even made Pac Man a spreadsheet to record his quiz results to challenge himself to get better and faster! He is a competitor so this has really helped him! You can download my spreadsheet here if you’d like to use them! I printed 4 copies and he circled which operation at the top and recorded his times and info on the separate sheets {although he isn’t using the division one yet}.